Wicked Game

[Simon]

Best i could do.

[saxomonica]

Beautiful!
‘If you’re doing your best then that’s good enough’

[Simon]

Thanks my friend. Appreciate it.

[Anonymous]

Well done Simon!

Playing well known songs with backing tracks, is great, it’s the next best thing to playing in a band, and i’m in favour of it.

However there is one disadvantage from this approach, in terms of mastering embellishments its a hit and miss approach, randomly depending on which tunes you select to play and what embellishments are in the music sheet.

To take it to the next level, i recommend buying this music book, don’t let the word jazz put you off. This book will have you mastering embellishments, so that when you go back to all the music sheets you’ve played in the past, will change the way you play them, and will develop your own style of playing – also great if you do improvising.

https://www.alfred.com/reading-key-jazz-rhythms-b-flat-soprano-and-tenor-saxophone/p/01-ADV14702/

[Anonymous]

https://en.schott-music.com/shop/reading-key-jazz-rhythms-no307937.html

shows some pages.

This music book is like an embellishment work out in a gym

[Simon]

Thanks S P

[Anonymous]

You’re welcome Simon.

Embellishments … scoops, fall offs, bending notes, glissandos etc…

Need to be practiced and mastered just like scales are practiced up and down the sax.

ie if you choose to practice one type of embellishment lets say you want to practice improving a fall off, then you need to master playing a fall off on every other key on the sax, same goes for the other types of embellishments. On different keys, fingering changes and embouchure changes and control of wind changes.

the joys of sax, you probably know all this already, but i soon found out once i mastered something on one key, i assumed i could do it on every other key, which turned out to be false. we’re all here to help one another along the way.

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